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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread
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To: DayTraderKidd who wrote (7827)12/20/2006 4:01:53 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) of 15987
 
That was the place to wage an iraq type of war. Afghanistan was the place to change that culture

Afghanistan is less secular than Iraq is. Despite being brutally repressive, the Ba'thists were originally a secular nationalist movement.

And now we're seeing the militant extremist muslim factions attempting to turn it into a Jihadist state.

This simply cannot be permitted to happen. Even if losing Iraq to them doesn't result in economic turmoil due to oil reserves, we cannot permit the Jihadists to control those revenues. Give them that kind of capital to play with and you're going to see a drastic increase in terror attacks.

Afghanistan is a backwater and I agree that it's going to take decades to develop some kind of functional economy/society there. But Iraq is a far different scenario.

Hawk
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